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No, that is just a speific sub type of blog posts. What I often post is something like this:1. Look at this cool/ odd thing I found.2. I wondered what it is for so did some research.3. Here's the results.4. isn't that interesting?

OK, some go:1. Argh! See what the stupid ****** ***** (censored)2. It is bad/ mad because of xyz, have some links.3. (censored)!!!!!!!!

1. Look at THIS2. This is _p_3. Since _p_, _q_.4. It makes me think of THAT.

The variable _p_ and _q_ can be replaced by about any adjective in the english language, and many, many more language. It would be interesting to compile the most frequent ones. It is interesting, odd, cool, ironic, farsical, revolting, exasperating, dubious, extraordinary, beautiful, etc.

The third part is mandatory, but not for the blogger. The readers can send praise, indignation, etc.

We could also supplement:

- Prefacing (As readers might or might not know, etc.)

- Photo-editorializing (a photo is worth a thousand words, but which ones?)

- Generalizing (going from Revkin to journos in general)

I think the main point is #1: a blog post needs to audit another blog post. And since this is recursive, it is a neverendingaudit :-)

No, it's not inspired especially by Keith, although he too tends to attack talking heads, because that habit is very widespread. Everyone does that: it's easy, instructive and fun.

(Here comes the time where I should say that it's not a criticism of the blogs, simply a more or less formal description. Spot an error; show it's an error; epilogue; show a nice graph; show it's nice; epilogue; et cetera.)

The only counter-example I could think is **Science of Doom**, which shows that it's not really a blog.

That was just a witty repartee, you know. It's less than half-baked. Without being an historical authority in the matter, my gut feeling is that blog wars are mainly fed by judicial rhetorics.